#France

France: Atlantique Offshore Energy has signed a contract to carry out the maintenance of the substation for the Calvados offshore wind farm off France.

France, Paris: GreenStruxure, a joint venture of Schneider Electric and Huck Capital, and ClearGen (Blackstone), have announced a strategic partnership.

France, Paris: VINCI has signed an agreement to acquire ACS’s energy business that includes a 15 GW renewables pipeline, for $5.7 B (€4.2 B).

Nexans has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Empire Offshore Wind LLC to connect the Empire Wind offshore projects to the onshore grid.

GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine have won a contract to supply a state-of-the-art HVDC transmission system for Sofia.

France, Saint-Nazaire: Fabrication of the offshore substation topside for the Fécamp offshore wind farm is progressing in Saint-Nazaire.

France, Paris: A new high-voltage power line between France and Britain is expected to go live by the end of January.

France, Paris: Nexans is to supply specialised power cables to Australia’s solar farms.

SRD and GÉRÉDIS Deux-Sèvres awarded Efacec the modernisation of the command centres responsible for managing the electrical distribution network in New Aquitaine.

France, Paris: Global power producer ENGIE has appointed Gillian-Alexandre Huart as CEO of ENGIE Energy Access.

Atlantique Offshore Energy has begun construction of the Fécamp offshore wind farm electrical substation with its partners GE Grid Solutions and SDI.

Michel Augonnet has taken the position of the new President of CIGRE, and Michael Heyeck became the Vice President of Finance (Treasurer).

France: Trench has developed, tested, and launched the first high voltage bushing insulated with biodegradable ester fluid.

France: The installation of Saint Nazaire’s offshore substation is due to start in summer 2020, despite COVID-19 impacts.

Consortium Atlantique Offshore Energy, GE Grid Solutions, and Société de Dragage International made a contract to deliver electrical substations to 2 wind farms

France: RTE is proposing to invest $36.4 B (33 B euros) by 2035 to renovate the French network and add more international power lines.

France: French duo Ideol and Atlantique Offshore Energy have unveiled market-ready plans for a floating substation for the offshore wind sector.

France, Paris: Exxelia, a global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered passive components, will exhibit two innovative products.

France, Cadarache: Last week a 14-metre long transformer supplied to ITER, world’s largest tokamak, by a manufacturer in China was moved to its permanent location.

France, Paris: GE has successfully commissioned back-to-back high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter facilities for the Brazil-Uruguay interconnection project, as well as extended and equipped existing substations for Interconexiones del Sur (ISUR).

France, Paris: Last week in Paris, Eskom’s technology master specialist, Dr Rob Stephen, was elected President of Cigre, an international council on large electric systems.

France/Ireland: France and Ireland plan to build a 1-billion-euro (USD 1.10 billion) power link to connect the two countries by 2025.

France: The passengers in Eurostar have been evacuated outside Paris after a fire had broken out in one of the transformers which affected its service log.

France, Paris: GE has announced it recently introduced the first environmentally-friendly transformer designed for railway applications in Germany.